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Imperial Council, Vienna

''Gentlemen, it has been a long battle fought against an enemy that has morphed into a ferocious and dangerous shape. But every man in this building knows that, what we've come to adress here are the accusations made by the various international powers; yes, we have been accused of oppressing the people under our reign, of being against the very men we vowed to protect due to unbridled thirst of power. This is a complete lie. Our Staatsgrundgezets contemplates, and I quote, ''All races of the empire have equal rights, and every race has an inviolable right to the preservation and use of its own nationality and language''. This was only contemplated for Cislethania, but let it be known that as a law is proclaimed, its essence can't be lost for the judicial and legislative systems all over the empire.

The brave and courageous Franz Ferdinand also advocated for the treatment of each culture equally, he advocated for a better life for the Slavic peoples. Let it be known. It is for this reason I cannot comprehend how, how someone like the perpetrators of the crimes that started this terrible war have fallen puppets to an influence so perjudicial to the whole of humanity. What influence is that, you may ask yourselves? The Russian influence. As I have demostrated and will further demostrate, the Russian leaders have taken it upon themselves to accuse us of acts that they themselves have taken part of. They claim to fight for the liberation, to the realease of the opression of the Slavic peoples. They made a few innocent men into brainwashed machines full of hate, of passionate and fiery hate that was directed towards a single man, the hate condensed in a bullet and the millions that have died because of that single bullet.

What can the Russians say about opression, when they themselves have had a mission of opressing the Polish peoples, the Ukranian peoples and almost every subject to the east? What can they respond? The Serbians are kind, understanding. The leaders that had been manipulated into allowing the griveous acts, were not. We have treated the occupied territories as any respectable power should, for the civilians and families should not suffer. No man should suffer what they have done to the Galician countryside, to the inhabitants of it, whose lands they have razed with fire and steel, with sharpnel and gunpowder. This, is a proof of the peaceful process we have undertaken in the occupation of the Serbian territories.

*A screen behind the Emperor shows images of factories and the Serbian countryside, of soldiers in K.u.k. uniforms watching over a break in a factory, of a Serbian man recieving a salary and going home at dawn*

And this, of the towns in Galicia.

What is the Russian leadership doing, what have the switching leaderships done to stop the efforts of abuses realized in towns, of the destroying of countless lives. The new Russian leadership preaches progress for the people of the world, for the ''oppressed of the world''. What they seek is expanding their violent power to the rest of Europe, their opression over whoever disagrees with them! See our effort to liberate Ukraine and Poland and see them represented, see them be able to decide for themselves, not under the yoke of Petrograd! They preach of the protection of the Slavic peoples, but what have they done aside from throwing the very same peoples into a senseless war through cunning manouvers. We respect the integrity of the Slavic peoples. I've gone to Zagreb and seen prosperity. I've seen pictures of Belgrade under our reign and there is nothing but productivity, but people in better conditions. This is a mutlinational state that respects the men under its reign. And that is how this nation should be seen.

Not as a nation under the yoke of a few, like Russia, but a nation under a leadership that gives opportunities to all.

We have taken measures to let the multicultural peoples under our reign decide for themselves, under a sphere of prosperity. That is what we do here, and have done all the time. And what about Britain, France, Italy and Spain? It has been a tangled web of treaties, of agressions and rivalries rekindled. We will not address most of these. What needs to be known by Britain and France is that they are the same as us. The Raj and Indochina, the great African heartland. We all have everything to make those fertile lands and their inhabitants reach progress, the development of the human essence. Happiness. We are not oppressors. We are collaborators for humanity to reach its peak potential.

Let us act as such. Let us put an end to this war.

Thank you.''

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